Please sell ties in the shop

[Lyracian]

Hi OOTS,

I am sure there is a lot of folk like me that have to wear a shirt and tie to the office every day. Please add some ties to the CafePress shop so we can take OOTS to work with us.

Thanks,

Michael

[Jimorian]

The new Belkar design (http://www.cafepress.com/orderofthestick/7475372) on a tie would be PERFECT for any office environment. :smalltongue:

[The Giant]

Thanks for asking, but I unfortunately have very little control over what products are offered by CafePress. All I can do is choose which, of their existing selection of products, I choose to put my designs on (and what designs they are). Since CafePress does not offer neckties as an available product, there's nothing I can do to get them into my shop, except perhaps pass along the suggestion to my CafePress marketing consultant.

Which I will do, because I agree that it would be cool.

[Lord_Gareth]

Thanks for asking, but I unfortunately have very little control over what products are offered by CafePress. All I can do is choose which, of their existing selection of products, I choose to put my designs on (and what designs they are). Since CafePress does not offer neckties as an available product, there's nothing I can do to get them into my shop, except perhaps pass along the suggestion to my CafePress marketing consultant.

Which I will do, because I agree that it would be cool.

Are there any legalities in the way of you releasing a printout that could be, say, ironed onto a tie? 'Cause my wife's good with that kinda stuff.

[The Giant]

Are there any legalities in the way of you releasing a printout that could be, say, ironed onto a tie? 'Cause my wife's good with that kinda stuff.

No, but I'd really be shooting myself in the foot if CafePress then listened to my suggestion and added ties to their site. :smalltongue:

[Lord_Gareth]

No, but I'd really be shooting myself in the foot if CafePress then listened to my suggestion and added ties to their site. :smalltongue:

And I take there ARE legalities preventing us from copypasta/print/tie ourselves?

[Quincunx]

Legalities and the difficulties of iron-ons with silk. They're meant to be used with cotton and cotton/polyester and other fabrics that can take high heat. Tie silk, not so much. Spoonflower's print-on-demand silk is a crepe de chine, drapy scarf-like stuff, not solid tie silk. One could maybe buy a CafePress item and refashion it into a neck scarf, but it would make a strange and thick tie, at best.

Another option might be licensed needlework/machine embroidery patterns with which one could embellish one's own ties. There are fan needlework projects of OotS characters (cross-stitch for certain) but none of those were perfect. That will take some research on my end to find the digitizer which talks with the widest variety of sewing machines.

[Obrysii]

Another option might be licensed needlework/machine embroidery patterns with which one could embellish one's own ties. There are fan needlework projects of OotS characters (cross-stitch for certain) but none of those were perfect. That will take some research on my end to find the digitizer which talks with the widest variety of sewing machines.

This is what I love about fandom: discussing how to embellish one's ties with character designs.

I second (thirded, fourthed?) the idea of ties with these designs, and would totally wear one often.

[The Vorpal Tribble]

The new Belkar design (http://www.cafepress.com/orderofthestick/7475372) on a tie would be PERFECT for any office environment. :smalltongue:
What's that scent in the air? It has the aroma of... sexual harassment :smalltongue:

Maybe 'another' design to qualify for the 'any office'.

[Evil DM Mark3]

Which I will do, because I agree that it would be cool.

Yay, 100% pure certified hope!

[Mystic Muse]

I believe this is the first time I've seen Rich listen to an Idea like this.

Unfortunately, I won't have any opportunity to wear an OOTS tie even if I could get one.

[Vaynor]

I believe this is the first time I've seen Rich listen to an Idea like this.

Unfortunately, I won't have any opportunity to wear an OOTS tie even if I could get one.

Idea with a capital "I"! Must be a good one.

Are ties illegal where you live? You never need a reason to wear an awesome tie!

[Mystic Muse]

Idea with a capital "I"! Must be a good one.

Are ties illegal where you live? You never need a reason to wear an awesome tie!

No, it's just that the only time I'd ever wear a tie (Short of a job I don't have) would be a wedding, and an OOTS tie seems like a bad idea for a wedding, even among my cousins.

[mucat]

No, it's just that the only time I'd ever wear a tie (Short of a job I don't have) would be a wedding, and an OOTS tie seems like a bad idea for a wedding, even among my cousins.

Aw, c'mon...last panel of this (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0508.html)? If the bride and groom aren't touched, they have no souls... :smallsmile:

[Mystic Muse]

Aw, c'mon...last panel of this (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0508.html)? If the bride and groom aren't touched, they have no souls... :smallsmile:

Maybe that. That could work.

[Quincunx]

Zazzle (http://www.zazzle.com/custom/ties) offers a customizable printed tie (100% polyester, $30 base price). That has all the attendant problems of opening up a new shop and possibly violating the contract with CafePress.

*****

Many of the embroiderers on my sewing board use a digitizing service at $15-$20 a design instead of doing it themselves. Considering the lowest price of a well-reviewed program seems to be $300 (Embird basic (http://www.embird.com/sw/embird/features.htm) (($150, 30-day free trial)) for editing designs, which may be enough combined with a graphic designer's talent, plus Embird digitizing studio (http://www.embird.com/sw/embird/estudio.htm) for creating designs from non-embroidery files), they may well have a point.

I haven't yet found an on-demand embroidery service that keeps ties in stock. Still looking on that front. A regular embroidery shop would certainly embellish ties that you supply, but that is no on-demand service.

[Keld Denar]

Are ties illegal where you live? You never need a reason to wear an awesome tie!

Not where I live, but where I work...yes. Something about being sucked head-first into violently rotating equipment, pressed through scalding hot rollers, and being unceramoniously depositted in a gory heap of mangled flesh into the re-pulper auger for further bodily dismemberment just doesn't sound enticing to me. Ouchies!

[Kobold-Bard]

Not where I live, but where I work...yes. Something about being sucked head-first into violently rotating equipment, pressed through scalding hot rollers, and being unceramoniously depositted in a gory heap of mangled flesh into the re-pulper auger for further bodily dismemberment just doesn't sound enticing to me. Ouchies!

Bah! Health & Safety gone mad! :smallannoyed:

[Fortuna]

Not where I live, but where I work...yes. Something about being sucked head-first into violently rotating equipment, pressed through scalding hot rollers, and being unceramoniously depositted in a gory heap of mangled flesh into the re-pulper auger for further bodily dismemberment just doesn't sound enticing to me. Ouchies!

...

Fair enough then.

[grimbold]

what would be really cool is a tie with Belkar standing on top of all the hob goblin corpses yelling "I AM A SEXY SHOELESS GOD OF WAR!!"

[SensFan]

Maybe I'm in the minority here, but if I'm going to wear a tie, its usually for a at least semi-formal occasion. As such, I'd have little to no use for a tie with something like the Sexy Shoeless God of War scene, but I'd be interested in a tie with something featuring OotS in a remotely serious manner. Something like the insignia on the water bottles.

[Zherog]

At my prior job, it was business attire (shirt and tie) my first three years there. I made a mockery of the dress code, by having cartoon characters on every tie I wore. Winnie the Pooh, Bugs Bunny, Cat in the Hat, and so on. It was bad enough that my boss once asked me to please wear "normal ties" during a three day meeting with an important vendor. In my little bubble world, I like to think I had something to do with the change in dress code. :)

The only time I wear a tie any longer is weddings and funerals. I do still wear cartoon ties -- my Cat in the Hat is my first choice. It's the Cat in a library, and on the back is my favorite Dr. Seuss quote: "Young cat, the more that you read, the more you'll know; the more that you know, the more places you'll go."

As for OotS ties... I think there's a market for both styles -- the comedic, over the top, "Sexy Shoeless God of War" variety and the more subdued type mentioned by SensFan. If Cafe Press follows Rich's suggestion of adding ties, it's not as though Rich will be limited to offering only one style, after all.

(And for the record, I would purchase a tie with a more subdued tone.)

[Jimorian]

A overall repeated pattern like the pile of goblin corpses under Belkar during the SSGOW scene would also be one of those things you wouldn't necessarily notice until you got up close. :smallamused:

[Lyracian]

Since CafePress does not offer neckties as an available product, there's nothing I can do to get them into my shop, except perhaps pass along the suggestion to my CafePress marketing consultant.

Which I will do, because I agree that it would be cool.Thanks. Lets just hope they agree. It could be a very lucrative business change for them, and you. :smallbiggrin:


At my prior job, it was business attire (shirt and tie) my first three years there. I made a mockery of the dress code, by having cartoon characters on every tie I wore. Winnie the Pooh, Bugs Bunny, Cat in the Hat, and so on.I work in a school and those are the sort of ties I wear. The kids (and staff) love them. I am getting a Spider-man tie for my birthday.:smallcool:

I think this (http://www.cafepress.co.uk/orderofthestick.487900393) or this (http://www.cafepress.co.uk/orderofthestick/7476502) could work on a tie...

[Kjata]

Thanks. Lets just hope they agree. It could be a very lucrative business change for them, and you. :smallbiggrin:

I work in a school and those are the sort of ties I wear. The kids (and staff) love them. I am getting a Spider-man tie for my birthday.:smallcool:

I think this (http://www.cafepress.co.uk/orderofthestick.487900393) or this (http://www.cafepress.co.uk/orderofthestick/7476502) could work on a tie...

The Xykon one would be HILARIOUS if you were the manager.

[big teej]

I'm not gonna lie, if I could get my hands on an OOTS tie, I would hate wearing them ALOT less.

[Saintjebus]

I must submit my support of the OOTS tie idea. I am about to start a job at a bank, and I would totally wear OOTS ties as part of my work clothes.

[Vaynor]

I'm not gonna lie, if I could get my hands on an OOTS tie, I would hate wearing them ALOT-less.

Why, do you think we need Alot (http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html) ties as well?

[big teej]

Why, do you think we need Alot (http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html) ties as well?


sadly, no... I'm afraid that was simply me making a mistake in the rush of excitement I felt over having an oots tie. :smallredface:

[Rockphed]

sadly, no... I'm afraid that was simply me making a mistake in the rush of excitement I felt over having an oots tie. :smallredface:

Shame on you. The Alot is better at everything, including being on a tie. Unfortunately, I suspect that The Giant would run into legal problems trying to sell ties with Alot on them.

[Roland St. Jude]

Sheriff of Moddingham: Okay, the question's been answered and now we've gone far enough astray.